While I do enjoy a bit of theorycrafting, I don't think the inclusion of NAL changed too much. Josh's decline is a sad and terrible decline, starting all the way back at when he got kicked out of Job Corps if you ask me. It's a staircase the BOY fell down:
- Kicked out of Job Corps (himself)
- Fired from Wendy's (fat fuck from Kentucky/trolls)
- Swatted (trolls) + Realized he could make more money doing nothing (trolls encouraging bad behaviour/reinforcing his isolation)
- Pandemic
- Evicted(1st time) (Himself, "mildly" aided by the trolls)
- Duster (trolls)
- Hurricane Jessica (gay-ops started by trolls/gorlworl, NAL being a sicko thinking she had an easy meal ticket, "cobra's hidden treasure")
- Eviction(slight return) (NAL, further encouraged his lack of content creation)
- Ozzy's death (no one could've foreseen or expected how Josh would react, his health was already at the lowest point in his life)
Each event was a step down from the last, underlined by his tooth decay. I've said it before, it wasn't a matter of if, but when. The only difference is that the second eviction meant he trusted everyone even less, never mind that he was even further away from all of his Homeboys.
Cobes was the master of his own demise, but I fully believe the trolls held the largest amount of blame in this. Yes, Josh is the one who chose to abuse various substances, he's the one who huffed the cologne, drank the alcohol and huffed duster, sitting in paint fumes for years but who sent him the Everclear? The duster? Who harassed him with DoorDash orders etc.
The trolls constantly blowing up his phone, contacting his family and disrupting their lives, all in the name of cahntent and becoming the next VIP/big name troll.
Yes, Josh is the one who put Puff on his shoulder and went outside for a smoke. Josh also was a severely disabled man, mentally still a teenager.
The less he interacted with his homeboys, the faster his decline, the more he substance abused.
NAL was the final big interaction with another human being before he ended up in the trailer that would be his coffin. It's easy to point a finger at her because of the evidence we have of her abuse of him. I don't think she deserves any more attention now that Josh has been dead for 6 months. Their relationship was a shitstorm that Josh didn't need or deserve, as much as I enjoyed seeing him sitting in the dead dog chair with her on his lap, toothless grin from ear to ear.
I only wish that Tarman and sickos like him could feel the full force of justice after deliberately, knowingly, supplying a mentally ill retard with the means for his catastrophic downwards spiral. I wish Josh and the Saunders clan could have felt the true extent of his fanbase's genuine love for him, instead of the infinitesimal grouping of jealous drug addicts and sociopathic trolls who wanted to destroy him.
Let King Cobra JFS be a lesson in how you should interact with a lolcow: Don't become a hate watcher. If a cow stops being funny and you feel the need to touch shit, step away and do something else.
I miss you, Jord Sandeux.